Liz Nicholls

Look! Look! I spotted a pair of rare white-topped cuckoos! The fun and charm of The Birds.... Check out the full 12thnight review!

'"ll you have to do is move your little finger and you can change the world,” sings the disaffected actor John Wilkes Booth in Assassins. Sondheim's weird and macabre (and awfully damn timely) 1990 masterwork has attracted a new generation of musical theatre talent...." Check out the full 12thnight review!.

In the beginning was ... writer's block. After that, a clever playwright-character switcheroo. Who creates whom? Check out the full 12thnight review!

"When we meet the title character (Caitlin Stasey) in this lacerating three-actor account of the Greek myth of Electra, she is a shocking sight, shrieking in psychotic rage, almost levitating. Her limbs barely belong to her.... Check out the full 12thnight review!

'A brief history of colonialism' from bouffon clowns: strange, unsettling, fascinating Colonial Circus.... Check out the full 12thnight review!

Women are from Mars, men are from Mars (couples therapy on the red planet).... Nothing about a promising premise will prepare you for 60 minutes in the dreary company of S and Clark.... Check out the full 12thnight review!

Wow! A deadly riot caused by ... live theatre! In a riotous new show from Monster Theatre.... Check out the full 12thnight Fringe review!

"This ambitious new musical from Light in the Attic Productions getting its start at the Fringe chronicles a fraught love story: two Ziegfeld girls in love and up against it in a homophobic world...."

"And then a giant sturgeon ate a bunch of people (and the plot).... Silly, unhinged and chaotic, and funny, with sophisticated, artfully constructed musical theatre songs. One should be our civic theme song, seriously....

" "What if we aren’t awake?” wonders Victor, half a set of Victorian twins, terrified and a bit thrilled by the nightmare he’s been having...." Check out the full 12thnight review!